Barntown

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barntown, from 24 m² to 168,360 m² (16.84 ha, 41.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Barntown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for an extension to the side of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250280

• 20 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for unauthorised works carried out to existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241611

• 4 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for the change in site boundary, internal and external

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240361

• 30 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed construction of an extension to the existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231017

• 20 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct alternative design changes to previously granted plannin

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220990

• 17 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of modifications & an extension to dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220811

• 28 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a new fully serviced dwelling, garage, effluent treatmen

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210845

• 11 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201047

• 28 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM THOSE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191577

• 30 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF EXISTING SHEDS, PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190758

• 29 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190754

• 24 Apr 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190545

• 11 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180622

• 28 Feb 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SEWRVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTI

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180245

• 27 Oct 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171398

• 5 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF PART OF ATTIC TO A BEDROOM WITH WC AND ALL ASSOCIATE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170407

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barntown.

Recorded monuments

• WX037-034 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References date from 1562 when an inquisition reported that it had been held by Walter Roche who had died the previous year and whose heir was William Wadding. A John Wadding held it in 1635 (Jeffrey 1979, 98-9) but in 1641 the ruined castle and 210 acres at Barntown was held by Robert Roche and John Wadding (Simington 1953, 106). The latter was listed (1655-9) to receive 216 acres in Connaught (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 505). The tower house is located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope at the N end of the NE-SW ridge of Forth Mountain. This is a rectangular tower (ext. dims 7.9m N S; 6.6m E W) of five storeys with a destroyed N-S vault over the first floor. It survives to the base of the wall-walk, but there are no dressed stones surviving anywhere in the structure. Nor is there any evidence that there was ever a bawn attached. The re-built entrance, protected by machicolation, is towards the N end of the E wall and leads to a destroyed lobby with evidence of a murder hole. The ground floor has lights in the E and S walls, and the remains of a mural stairs in the E wall gives access through the remains of a doorway to the first floor which has lights in the N and S walls. Its floor is supported on corbels in the W wall, and presumably in the destroyed E wall. The mural stairs continue in the E wall to the second floor over the vault, which had a fireplace in the W wall, the flue of which projects on the outer face of the wall, a garderobe at the NW angle which is entered by a lintelled doorway off a lintelled embrasure in the W wall. There are windows in the N and S walls and corbels in the W wall to suport the ceiling. A newel stairs at the SE angle, now destroyed, gave access to the third floor which has large windows with seats in the N and E walls, and a smaller window in the S wall. There is a fireplace in the W wall and the lintelled entrance to the garderobe at NW angle is just N of it. There are rebates on the N, W and E walls for the ceiling and the W wall also has corbels. The newel stairs continued to the fourth floor which has a window ope in each wall. The joists for the ceiling were set directly into the E and W walls. Archaeological testing (20E0695) by J. Purcell c. 70m to the N at the closest point produced no related material, and further testing (20E0600) by N. Gregory c. 60m to the SW at the closest point had a similar result (excavations.ie 2021:303). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 December, 2012 Amended: 7 November 2022

Architectural heritage

• Barntown House, country house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (four-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1833, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Renovated, 1996. Flat topped hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with pressed or rolled iron ridges, granite ashlar central chimney stack on granite ashlar base having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, paired rooflights to front (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging box eaves having dentil consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered monolithic pilasters to corners; channelled granite ashlar walls (porch) on moulded cushion course on plinth with paired cut-granite pilasters to corners supporting dentilated ogee cornice on blind frieze on architrave below parapet. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess approached by flight of five cut-granite steps between cast-iron railings, cut-granite surround with ogee hood moulding on fluted scroll consoles framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite sills, and channelled granite ashlar voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule; hall (south-east) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surround to window opening, and picture railing below dentilated cornice to ceiling; staircase hall (south-west) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with paired balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in columnar newel, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; drawing room (north-east) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-veined grey marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below egg-and-dart-detailed cornice to compartmentalised ceiling; dining room (north-west) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below egg-and-dart-detailed cornice to compartmentalised ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose in "Anthemion" frame; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Barntown Castle, farm house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1820, on an L-shaped plan with three-bay (east) or two-bay (west) two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pressed iron ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks having cut-granite stringcourses below capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having paired timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth; part slate hung surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-granite steps, doorcase with three quarter-engaged fluted Ionic columns supporting monolithic cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Barntown Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1903, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of cast-iron "bird cage" piers supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates with cut-granite monolithic outer piers having domed capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Barntown Castle.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2986 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Barntown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Barntown · Baile an Bharúnaigh

Area

791,067 m² (79.11 ha, 195.48 acres)

Civil parish

Carrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Carrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick electoral division: 1,831 people in 630 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindinas, Ballygoman, Cullentra, Newtown, Shelmaliere Commons

Placenames

Barntown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.